Egyptian blogger sentenced to four years in prison

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
An Egyptian blogger charged with insulting Islam was convicted Thursday and sentenced to four years in prison by an Egyptian court. Abdel Kareem Nabil received three years in prison for insulting Islam and one year for insulting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Nabil, a 22-year-old former student at Egypt's Al-Azhar University, an Islamic institution, had pleaded innocent to all charges.